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  • Great new wordpress theme – Portfolio

    Great new wordpress theme – Portfolio

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    So I was having a few brews over in the WordPress Tavern earlier today when I stumbled across a new wordpress theme called Portfolio. The full details of the theme can be found on the main Portfolio Theme details page. After taking Portfolio Theme for a quick spin in the themesforge labs I must say…

  • Thesis and WordPress kiss and make up – Thesis now has a Split GPL license

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    One of the most controversial and hotly debated public arguments in the WordPress community ended this week when Chris Pearson of DiyThemes.com changed the license for his very popular Thesis theme to a split GPL license which has the backing of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. In a nutshell, the decision by Chris to switch to…

  • 5 Must Read Tutorials on WordPress Custom Post Types

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    So I’m doing some Sunday driving today and taking a closer look at WordPress Custom Post Types and how they can be implemented into WordPress themes in WordPress 3.0. I must admit, this is pretty powerful stuff and the lines between theme development and plugin development are blurring a lot more now in 3.0 than…

  • Breaking: Matt Cutts is considering dropping Thesis

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    As WordPress and Thesis continue to wage war over the past week, I’ve just been tuned into the WordPress Podcast where Matt Cutts is online with Yoast and Frederick having a broad discussion about Matt’s experience with WordPress and as usual Matt is full of interesting stories and facts about not only SEO but also…

  • Thesis gets hacked and the coming Thesis Vs. Automattic battle

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    So diythemes.com – producers of the infamous Thesis WordPress theme got hacked today. Apart from the fact that it’s nasty for anyone to get hacked at any stage, this event inadvertently reignited the WordPress/Automattic vs. Thesis war of words after some follow up tweeting from what I can make out. The war of words is…

  • Making WordPress better

    Making WordPress better

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    Probably the last thing that the WordPress dev team want to think about now is new feature requests for future versions of WordPress. In fact, the team have already stated that they’ll be taking a break from feature development for a few months which is cool and gives us all time to get to grips…

  • A new free HTML5 WordPress Starter Theme

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    Something interesting popped up today in the twittersphere with the release by Ian Stewart of a new free HTML5 WordPress theme called Toolbox. Ian is one of the smart guys in the wordpress community and it must be said that having taken a quick peek under the hood of Toolbox, it really is an excellent…

  • WordPress 3.0 Officially released, hurrah!

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    Great to see that WordPress 3.0 has been officially released. Anyone paying attention to the wordpress dev blog will have seen the rapid RC releases appearing over the past few weeks so it’s great to see 3.0 is now official. We’re planning to release a brand spanking new theme in the next few weeks which…

  • The state of Premium WordPress Themes

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    Just spotted a great post by Alex Denning over at WPShout about the state of premium wordpress themes. Alex makes some great points about why premium themes are here to stay. I agree wholeheartedly with Alex’s view on the premium themes market. Well worth 5 minutes of your time to read. Alex also runs a…

  • New WooThemes WooCodex Launches

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    Some great news for the WordPress Themes community to start off this week. WooThemes have launched a new WooCodex resource for all WooThemes customers. Essentially the WooCodex provides WooThemes customers with an excellent resource for extending their own custom functionality within their chosen WooThemes wordpress theme. One good example would be the addition of new…